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• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 13 November 2002

What worries me is, I'm very concerned for borough commanders as well, because boroughs differ so widely in the policing challenges, and it seems to me that when there is some creativity in the borough commanders' development in their policing objectives, then they're quite often squashed - and I know we've got a question coming up later about Commander Paddick and the cannabis initiative in Lambeth. But it does seem to me it is actually extremely difficult for borough commanders to be creative about the problems they face.

• Reference: 2002/0005-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

Are you aware that, despite the budget increases for the extra 1,000 officers last year and the extra 1,000 officers this year, the amount that the Met is going to be spending on road safety, and on traffic offences, is actually going to be in line with what was being spent in the 1980s and 1990s? .

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

I take that point. Now, the Government has set targets for road safety. Do you think that the MPA can actually play its part in achieving those targets, if it doesn't actually set road safety as one of its formal priorities?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

There's also the fact that the Mayor's road safety strategy asks that the Met should specify what resources it's actually putting into road safety. That has not been done. Can you tell me why?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

You're suggesting, if that workshop comes up with some recommendations, then you would accept those recommendations?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

It does depend on how much weight is given by the Chair of an authority and how much airtime is given. Therefore, I'm asking you, will you personally accept the recommendations that come out of that workshop?

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

What I'm concerned about is that, especially in view of the reallocation of traffic police that's happened because of the cost of the anti-terrorist policing, what we're actually going to see this year is another year's increase in road fatalities and road accidents. I'm very concerned that that's going to happen. That's happened for the previous two years and could happen again. Now, I think that the MPA and the Met will bear a responsibility for that, if it happens when we get the figures in March.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

The fact is, if the Government had given us what they owe us for the amount of anti-terrorist policing that the Met has done, then we wouldn't have to argue over a few million here and there.

• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 16 January 2002

That doesn't take into account what's been happening in the boroughs and it doesn't take into account the exhaustion that a lot of officers are feeling and the stress it's created. You cannot say that £22 million covers that particular account.

• Reference: 2001/0307-1
• Question by: Jenny Jones
• Meeting date: 12 December 2001

Around £3m will be 'released' from the MPA budget if the London speed camera partnership bid is successful and the fines revenue is hypothocated. Will you ensure that this money is ring fenced for MPS work on road safety, such as establishing a mobile speed camera unit in every London borough? .